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Medicare rule changes could lower post-retirement health costs

By Allison Bell

Consulting actuaries at Milliman have surprising news for Americans saving for retirement: The typical cost of paying for acute health care after age 65 might be falling.

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Cigna invests $3.5B in specialty pharmacy subsidiary

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Long-term care crisis looms as just 3% of Americans over 50 have insurance

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September 03, 2025

Patients suffer as insurers and hospitals spar over contracts

Industry observers say long-standing trends like hospital consolidation and rising health care costs contribute to the disputes, and Trump administration policies could make them more frequent as hospitals brace for about $1 trillion in cuts to federal health care spending as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget law.

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September 02, 2025

Trump-era tax break for seniors sparks Social Security funding fears

The recent statement that Trump's tax law "eliminated federal income taxes on Social Security" is misleading, groups say.

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September 02, 2025

UnitedHealth data analytics unit sued over $4.4M factoring loss

Axos Bank says it lost the money when an OptumInsight employee set up a scheme based on fraudulent accounts receivable.

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September 02, 2025

Employers double down on stop-loss coverage

U.S. employers may have been a little more likely to use self-insured health plans in 2024 and a lot more likely to use stop-loss insurance to protect whatever self-insured plans they offered.

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September 02, 2025

UnitedHealthcare sues top radiology group over alleged 'abuse' of No Surprises Act

The lawsuit, filed earlier in August in a U.S. District Court in Arizona, claims that Radiology Partners has used arbitration as a “vehicle to obtain a windfall for its private equity investors."

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